Armenia: Our constitution has nothing to worry about for Baku

According to RCO News Agency, Ararat Mirzoyan, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia, on Wednesday, in response to a question at an international conference in Yerevan focusing on peace and multilateral cooperation, emphasized that the Constitution of Armenia does not contain any articles that cause concern to Baku.

Mirzoyan said: “We do not accept the notion that there is something in our constitution that is problematic for the Republic of Azerbaijan. Therefore, this issue is not part of the agenda of the negotiations and we will not discuss it.”

He added: “Peace has been established and a series of agreements have been signed. Of course, there are still cases in which the two countries disagree, and this is one of those cases.”

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia also stated that the two countries do not even have an agreement on including their own constitution in the negotiation process, and from Yerevan’s point of view, the constitution of the Republic of Azerbaijan also includes items that can be considered a threat to the territorial integrity of Armenia.

Mirzoyan reminded that Armenia has publicly announced its intention to amend its constitution since 2018 and emphasized that this is a purely internal issue. He said: “This issue is related to the Armenian section of this hall; First of all, it is part of our internal agenda and maybe it can be discussed only in this framework.

Baku has repeatedly asked Yerevan to remove the preamble of its constitution, which refers to the “1990 Declaration of Independence”. In that declaration, the resolution of 1989 was mentioned, in which the parliaments of Soviet Armenia and the autonomous region of Nagorno-Karabakh in the territory of the Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan decided to unite.

The President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and other officials of the country have repeated this demand several times after Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan signed a peace agreement in the White House of Washington on August 8 with the mediation of the President of the United States Donald Trump.

Despite Yerevan’s refusal to raise this issue as a precondition for negotiations, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has effectively promised to make the necessary changes as part of his government’s policy to achieve lasting peace with neighboring countries. According to Armenian law, the only legal way to make this change is to approve a new constitution through a national referendum.

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